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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
February 28, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Gilbert Burnham has just given a talk at MIT on the Lancet studies on deaths in Iraq. You can watch the video here. Some of things he mentioned: USAID (which has expertise in cluster sampling) was told to look for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 AM • 4 Comments •
February 27, 2007
Category: Open Thread
The previous open thread dropped off the front page, so here's a new one....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:50 PM • 40 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Conservatives and faux libertarians have been running with an attack on Al Gore from a junior version of the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- apparently he has a big house/office and it uses a lot of energy. Genuine libertarian Jim Henley...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:38 PM • 73 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
SkepticLawyer has a nice round up of blog reactions to the Australian Government's plan to ban incandescent light bulbs by 2010. (As well as lot more interesting links -- check it out.) For once, I find myself agreeing with Miranda...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 AM • 44 Comments •
February 26, 2007
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin suggests some terminology The problem of terminology has always been difficult. It's obviously unreasonable to use terms like "skeptic" or "contrarian" to describe people who produce or swallow transparently fraudulent propaganda like that of Singer and Seitz because...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:37 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Last year I wrote about the Australian's War on Science. It's continued this year, leading Ian Musgrave to write: The Australian is Anti-Science, it's a conclusion I'm reluctant to draw, but the accumulated evidence drives me to it. Read his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 AM • 8 Comments •
February 24, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
The AP reports: Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed. When the poll...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 AM • 42 Comments •
February 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming
CNSNews is a news analogue of Conservapedia. They have a story arguing that An Inconvenient Truth should be disqualified from the Oscar for best documentary because it's inaccurate. CNSNews tells us: A new scientific study shows that for the first...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:02 PM • 41 Comments •
February 22, 2007
Category: Global Warming
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is infamous for their reckless disregard of the evidence for global warming. They've just published an op-ed by Pete Du Pont which manages to get pretty well every single factual claim wrong. As with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 PM • 13 Comments •
February 21, 2007
Ed Brayton reports on Conservapedia, set up by Creationist Andrew Schlafly because he didn't like the "anti-Christian" bias of Wikipedia. Andrew Schlafly is the son of Phyllis Schlafly and legal counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:19 AM • 36 Comments •
February 20, 2007
Category: McIntyre
Montreal's La Presse has published an article on the global warming skeptics' on-line war on science. (Google translation here.) I get mentioned:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:17 AM • 13 Comments •
February 18, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Queensland's Land and Resources Tribunal has rejected objections to a new coal mine by environmental groups who wanted offsets for the carbon emissions of the mine. Unfortunately, the Tribunal got the science badly wrong, understating the emissions by a factor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 17 Comments •
February 15, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
Akusai has put together Skeptic's Circle number 54....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:14 AM • •
February 14, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Les Roberts in the Independent: On both sides of the Atlantic, a process of spinning science is preventing a serious discussion about the state of affairs in Iraq. The government in Iraq claimed last month that since the 2003 invasion...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:31 PM • 53 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Back in July I mentioned that the AEI was offering $10,000 to scientists for a "review and policy critique" of the new IPCC report. This month the Guardian caused all kinds of grief for the AEI when they described these...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:15 AM • 19 Comments •
February 10, 2007
Category: Bolt
You want to look away as this Andrew Bolt post comes off the rails, crashes and burns, but you can't. In his column, Alan Ramsey had quoted Tim Flannery: "What we've seen in the Arctic over the last two years...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:30 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Last October, the story of how there were 650,000 or so excess Iraqi deaths in the war wasn't important enough to make the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. In today's paper I see that the death of a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:39 AM • 22 Comments •
February 9, 2007
Category: meta
Glenn Reynolds wrongly claimed that I'd said that 59 was similar to 88. I hadn't, so he tried to wriggle out by pretending that he was just kidding), adding this: In a related matter, rumors that Lambert once asked a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 PM • 4 Comments •
February 8, 2007
Category: Open Thread
Here is a thread where you can discuss anything you like. For example, Canadian health care policies....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:00 PM • 75 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Writing about the new IPCC report, Andrew Bolt said The scientists of even the fiercely pro-warming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict seas will rise (as they have for centuries) not by Gore's 600cm by 2100, but by between 14...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:39 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Dale Keiger's article on the Lancet studies is now online: Newspapers the world over put the number in their headlines. Reporters tried to explain it, often bungling the job. To dismiss the research, critics seized on its implausibility, in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:22 AM • 2 Comments •
February 7, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg makes the (by now traditional) claim that the new IPCC report has significantly reduced the estimates of projected sea level rises. Six years ago, it anticipated ocean levels would be 48.5 centimeters higher than they are currently. In...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
There's pathological denial and there's super-duper-pathological denial. In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has now written 20 comments denying that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors. This Media Watch report? "And when we...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:15 AM • 11 Comments •
February 6, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Eli Rabett has some extracts from a 5,000 word article by Dale Keiger on the Lancet studies that appeared in the Johns Hopkins Alumni Journal. Keiger says that it will be available online in a few days. Update: Here it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • 77 Comments •
Category: timball
Tim Ball has written another silly article, declaring: Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. He provides no evidence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:43 AM • 60 Comments •
February 5, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Nexus 6 writes about critics of the IPCC There has been a concerted attempt by a number of contrarians with media access to use the findings of the summary to discredit claims about the degree of climate change and its...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 AM • •
Category: Monckton
William Connolley is somewhat bemused by Christopher Monckton's review of the IPCC's Summary for Policy Makers. Because the IPCC changed the way sea level rises were reported, critics seem to inevitably misunderstand them and claim that the IPCC has substantially...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:10 AM • 13 Comments •
February 4, 2007
Category: The War on Science
In my review of Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, I contrasted Mooney's book with Gross and Levitt's book about the the postmodern left's war on science, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Now Mooney...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:34 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Ron Bailey makes a dreadful hash of things in this article on the IPCC 4AR. He tries to describe how projections of warming by 2100 have changed as each of the IPCC's four assessment reports has come out. Unfortunately, Bailey...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:47 AM • 6 Comments •
February 3, 2007
Category: Global Warming
I must be really important because Glenn Reynolds has made a specious attack on me based on something I wrote, not in a post, but in a comment on another blog. I wrote that the sea level projections in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:04 AM • 68 Comments •
February 2, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Now that the new IPCC report has been released it's time to revisit the inaccurate leaks that appeared in The Australian and in The Sunday Telegraph. Both reporters made the same two errors: they reported the value for climate sensitivity...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 PM • 85 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The IPCC has released the Summary For Policymakers of the Fourth Assessment Report. Some of the conclusions: Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined as >90% probability] due to the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:36 AM • 11 Comments •
February 1, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
Occamsedge has put toether the 53rd Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:34 PM • •
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